On today's radio show we discussed the demise of atheism around the world as well as the real issues in the Ten Commandments case in front of the Supreme Court this week. Links to most stories we referenced can be found in the preceding posts, although we closed with this funny bit I had not previously blogged from The Weekly Standard:
THE SUPREME COURT OUGHT TO uphold the several displays of the Ten Commandments on government property whose constitutionality it considered last week. But how might it do that?
If the Court had a sense of humor, perhaps it would sustain the displays (the cases are from Texas and Kentucky) by observing that the Decalogue is foreign law, and that foreign law is always good law, often even better than our own. Think of the opinion that could be crafted, perhaps by Justice Anthony Kennedy, who last week cited developments in foreign law in declaring that the Constitution condemns capital punishment for crimes committed by persons under 18. Kennedy could observe that the Decalogue was received on Mt. Sinai by one Moses, an Israelite from Egypt, and that it was originally written in Hebrew, and that it has been translated the world over, and that . . .
You can listen to the recorded show here.
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